ETMOOC2 Webcomic: It’s Only AI (New Bot)

It's Only AI 1 (New Bot)I was enjoying a week-long series of comics from the Zits comic strip (April 17-21) about Chatbots and thought, I should try to do a series of comics myself, using what I am learning about through ETMOOC2 and inquiry.

Today is the first of what may be only a handful of my own AI-infused comics, mostly focused on George.Paul.Thomas (aka GPT) as a bot with personality. I can’t write the kind of deep humor that the creators of Zits can (they’re so good at it) but I’ll do my best. Some of the comics may work better than others. Just putting that out there in advance, y’all.

I’ve often turned to comics as reflective commentary, mostly using a comic strip app on my old iPad for the art and framing. My Panels From The Pandemic comics kept me sane during those strange times. I have created comics about writing. And then there was a month-long exploration of making poetry comics. And many moons ago now, I first tried my hand at a comic called Boolean Squared. (note: that comic site needs a lot of work, so apologies in advance)

So, you know, here I go again ….

Peace (Framed, Funny and Free),
Kevin

 

AI Comic: The Last Bot Standing

The Last Bot Standing

In many AI circles these days, there are discussions about the possibility that AI might advance to the point where its decisions might impact humanity in the most terrible ways — as in, complete destruction of society. It stems from our inability to really know how AI is making its decisions, and that unknown factor is cause for concern. That scenario of Ai-induced collapse of society seems far-fetched to me, but that it is even on the radar screen of AI engineers and developers is a bit worrisome, no?

Today’s Daily Create was to make a comic with Make Beliefs comic site (it was a prompt I had submitted some time ago and is being re-used, so that was fun to run into an old prompt) so, given our work in ETMOOC2, it made sense to poke fun at the idea of a sentient AI becoming the “last bot standing.” (AI is not sentient, and I don’t expect it ever be, by the way).

Peace (and Bots),
Kevin

Collection of Comics: Poetry Comics Month

I’ve been making comics in the form of poems (or poems in the form of comics) periodically this past month as part of an invitation by Grant Snider (of Incidental Comics) to be creative. Grant makes very interesting comics, full of thought and literary themes. Mine were all over the place but still fun to make (I made mine in an app while Grant hand-draws his).

I gathered the collection into a single video for curation.

Peace (and poems and comics),
Kevin